Richard Wright - Black Boy
List of Interviewees
In order of appearance
- Amiri Baraka
- Author/poet/essayist/music critic/ musician/playwright/professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- John Henrik Clarke
- Noted historian/professor emeritus, Hunter College, New York
- Margaret Walker Alexander
- Lecturer/professor of English, Livingstone College/author, For My People, Jubilee/Wright Biographer, Daemonic Genius
- Maryemma Graham
- Literary critic/Professor, Northeastern University, Boston
- Ben Burns
- Journalist/former Communist Party
member/executive editor of Ebony magazine
- Cedric Robinson
- Political scientist
- Ralph Ellison
- Author, Invisible Man
- Allen Willis
- Former resident of Chicago's "South
Side"
- Michael Dyson
- Literary critic/professor of communications studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Joyce Ann Joyce
- Literary critic/author, Richard Wright's
Art of Tragedy; 1986
- Constance Webb
- Wright biographer, Richard Wright: A Biography; 1968
- Essie Lee Davis
- Wright's classmate, Jackson, Mississippi
- Minnie Farrish
- Wright's classmate, Jackson, Mississippi
- Eugene Frederick
- Postal worker
- Ishmael Flory
- Activist
- Mark Naison
- Historian/professor of African-American studies, Fordham University, New York
- Thomas Cripps
- Film historian
- Willie Morris
- Author, North Towards Home/former editor- in-chief, Harper's magazine
- Ollie Harrington
- Artist
- Michel Fabre
- Essayist/editor/professor at the Sorbonne, Paris/Wright biographer, Richard Wright: Books and Writers
- Julia Wright
- Wright's eldest daughter/freelance
journalist/special consultant to the documentary
- Roscoe Stallworth
- Musician, Paris
- George Whitman
- Bookseller, Shakespeare & Co., Paris
- Richard Gibson
- Journalist, Paris
- Jerry Ward
- Literary critic/professor of English, Tougaloo College, Mississippi
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